Past speaking events and engagement

Professor Duncan Maclennan will be speaking at the following events:

• 23rd January 2025 - RSA Scotland Facing the Future: Scotland’s Housing Challenges

• 4th March 2025 - Scotland’s Housing Festival, CIH Scotland

• 27th November 2024, Professor Duncan Maclennan was the keynote speaker at the Mackay Hannah Conference, How do we fix the Housing System? More information here

• Thursday 19th September 2024 - Launch Event: Transforming the Housing System in Scotland launched new programme of work with Professor Duncan Maclennan to look at the actions needed to transform the housing system in Scotland. The work will look at the actions needed in the whole system from homelessness, unaffordable rents and planning, to skills shortages and supply-chain issues.

On 12th May 2025 a major new report, authored by Professor Duncan Maclennan CBE commissioned by the David Hume Institute, called for bold action on housing to secure long-term economic growth and reduce inequality across Scotland.

This first report from a new research series “Prosperity begins at home: Scottish housing policies for faster, fairer economic growth” argues that Scotland's housing system is underperforming and undermining the country’s economic potential.